Sheffield City Council

Perinatal mental health (PMH) problems affect 10-20% of women during pregnancy and the postnatal year, costing the UK an estimated £8.1 billion annually. Underserved groups-including women from ethnic minorities, deprived areas, and those facing multiple disadvantages-experience the greatest inequalities in access and outcomes. Despite national investment, many fall between primary care (general practice, NHS Talking Therapies) and specialist PMH services, with limited guidance on bridging this gap. To co-design an experience-based intervention to address unmet PMH needs among underserved women, and to explore barriers to accessing care and gaps across PMH pathways. A mixed-methods study using the MRC framework and an adapted Accelerated Experience-Based Co-Design (AEBCD) approach. Work Package 1 will survey and interview professionals nationally across diverse roles and organisational contexts. Work Package 2 will involve focus groups and interviews with underserved women in Sheffield and Doncaster (South Yorkshire, UK), supported by bilingual community link workers. Findings will be synthesised and used in co-design workshops (Work Package 3) to develop an accessible, evidence-informed intervention tailored to the needs of an underserved group. The PRAMS study will generate clinically relevant insights into improving access to and management of PMH care for underserved women and birthing people. By working collaboratively with practitioners, women with lived experience, and community partners, PRAMS will deliver a co-designed intervention with potential to reduce inequalities. Findings will inform local service delivery and contribute national learning on user-led redesign of PMH services across primary and secondary care.

IntroductionMindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) have an established, growing evidence base as interventions to optimise health, well-being and performance of individual participants. Emerging evidence suggests that MBPs also enhance prosociality, encouraging individuals to contribute to positive social change. This study focuses on the potential of MBPs to facilitate development of participants’ inner resources that support prosocial shifts. The review seeks to detect shifts in MBP benefit from individual toward ‘bigger than self’, informing and empowering individual and collective responses to complex societal and global issues. The review aims to map current literature on MBPs and social change, into a descriptive overview with commentary on quality, trends, theoretical models and gaps, and on how training in MBPs potentially enables individual and collective responses to societal and global issues. Recommendations for future directions for researchers seeking to advance this evidence base, and practitioners developing innovative MBPs for this purpose will be provided.Methods and analysisA scoping review of peer-reviewed literature will be undertaken and reported on according to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidance. Systematic searches of four scientific databases will be undertaken to identify potentially eligible articles published from all time to current date. Data will be extracted using an extraction template and analysed descriptively using narrative synthesis.Ethics and disseminationThis scoping review involves no human participants, so ethics is not required. Findings will be shared through professional networks, conference presentations and journal publication.

The economic crisis has undermined the foundations of trust-based relationships, creating a trust gap between organizations and their stakeholders and threatening business practice. The purpose of this study is to explore the breakdown of trust within small and medium-sized enterprises from an intra and inter-organizational perspective, drawing lessons from the fallout of the Greek economic crisis. Based on an in-depth investigation of four case-studies, this research offers insights on organization-stakeholder trust challenges created by the wider economic context. The paper presents a framework that can help entrepreneurs and managers for repairing trust in stakeholder relationships in times of economic crisis. This framework can also be used from consultants that are involved in small and medium sized companies’ development and growth.

A hallmark of science is the open exchange of knowledge. At this time of crisis, it is more important than ever for scientists around the world to openly share their knowledge, expertise, tools, and technology. Scientific models are critical tools for anticipating, predicting, and responding to complex biological, social, and environmental crises, including pandemics. They are essential for guiding regional and national governments in designing health, social, and economic policies to manage the spread of disease and lessen its impacts. However, presenting modeling results alone is not enough. Scientists must also openly share their model code so that the results can be replicated and evaluated.

The study by Andrea Austin and colleagues, which compares the outcomes of patients with peripheral artery disease in receipt of Medicare and Medicaid with those who only receive Medicare, highlights two important associations between poverty and health.[1][1] The first is that poverty can have an

Set against a background of failing housing markets and years of austerity, with spending cuts to many of the public services traditionally involved in housing, the UK Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year was always going to be a challenge. At the same time however, a programme of devolution to city regional bodies across England has provided the opportunity to test new approaches to support housing growth, with the potential for innovation and more tailored interventions designed around the needs of a specific place. This paper uses experience in the Sheffield City Region to illustrate the challenges and opportunities for housing growth in one part of the country as well as the interventions being developed to address these. The paper sets out some of the geographic and economic factors shaping the housing sector in the city region, and the role that housing growth has come to play in the wider economic ambitions for the area. It then describes some of the plans and programmes being developed to encourage the development of new homes and the success of a pilot Housing Fund could have in overcoming problems where national programmes have failed.

Issues of sustainable development, liveable cities, green infrastructure, and urban ecosystem services currently receive attention from researchers and decision-makers. Furthermore, the benefits to public wellbeing and health of high quality open spaces and green areas are now undisputed (e.g. Simson, 2008; Booth, 2005, 2006). However, with increasing pressure on urban landscapes for competing uses like housing-development green-spaces are under threat. Furthermore, austerity-driven cuts to local authority budgets mean loss of core services and skills relating to open-space management and planning. Some local authorities such as Newcastle City Council are withdrawing all expenditure on parks and community spaces. With major challenges in providing good quality urban green-spaces, the loss of most local authority countryside management services from 2008 onwards, reflects bigger problems (see Rotherham, 2014, 2015 for example). Within this wider scenario has been the growing importance of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to deliver core environmental and green-space services in many urban areas. These have been seen as possible fixes for the current waves of austerity cuts and many local authorities such as Sheffield City Council have gone down this route. Nevertheless, real costs (financial and otherwise) of Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) are now emerging (Syal, 2018). There are also issues of public access to information once contracts become ‘commercially sensitive’ and of profit-driven delivery of core ‘public benefit’ services. These changes threaten ‘local environmental democracy’ as part of a wider shift in democratic processes (Flinders, 2012, 2017). This paper examines wider issues of austerity-driven cuts to green-space services, of PFI projects, and of local environmental democracy. It takes the Sheffield street-trees initiative as an exemplar case-study to interrogate the broad concerns.

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